"I, and this gun's name is 'Death Gun'......'" The non-human, metallic voice. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Moreover, Lin Yiyan also strongly felt the real existence of the player who was shouting. The owner of the voice was not an ordinary player, but a person who exuded a murderous aura.

After hearing this voice, Lin Yiyan's brows furrowed deeply, and then he closed his eyes, kept tapping his fingers on the table, and began to think. Faced with this situation, Kikuoka seemed to ask, "What's wrong?" Yi Yanjun? Is there anything wrong with this sound? ”

"Nope! The sound is very problematic! Lin Yiyan, who was frowning, said with a slightly affirmative tone.

"What's the problem?"

"Do you know a murderous guild in the SAO game world?" Lin Yiyan asked simply.

"The Murder Guild?" Kikuoka frowned at first, then said with a sudden expression, "Do you mean the notorious murderous guild in the closed world, the Smiling Coffin?" ”

"Yes!" Lin Yiyan nodded and said, "We have teamed up to defeat that team, as for the process...... It's not pretty! But this voice, although it has been processed and is relatively vague, is certain that this person must be one of them! ”

"Oh!? Sure? Seeing that Lin Yiyan nodded without the slightest hesitation, Ju Gang pushed his glasses and said in an inexplicable tone, "In this case, the range will be much smaller!" At least a little checking, you might be able to identify a few people! Just the evidence? ”

"Proof, as you said, can only be found in the game! Like meeting that 'dead gun'! It's good to officially go and confirm! Of course, if the answer is correct, you will need to make your own arrests! Lin Yiyan said with a flat expression.

"Moreover, this crusade organized by me at the beginning, I didn't expect it to continue in the end, it seems that it is time for the end to end......" After speaking, Lin Yiyan's voice also fell silent.

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On the way out of the school gate, the dry and cold wind blew mercilessly across her face, and Shino Asada stopped and tightened the white scarf. It was only when half of her face with round-rimmed glasses was covered by a scarf that she took another step. On the pavement piled with a layer of dead leaves, she sighed softly in her heart, "In this way, the six hundred and eight days of the three years of high school have passed one hundred and fifty-six days, and finally a quarter has passed!" ”

But as soon as I thought about the number of days, I began to feel the length of this forced asceticism. But if you include the middle school years, then sixty percent of the days have already been passed. It's going to end someday...... Someday, it will end. As if she were chanting some incantation, she repeated it in her mind.

Then again, even when she graduated from high school, she wasn't thinking about what she was going to do or what she was going to become. It's just that she really wants to be liberated from the group called "high school students" to which she has been semi-forcibly belonging.

Every day, I had to go to that shelter-like place, listen to the weak lectures of the teachers, and do gymnastics in a queue with people who had probably not changed since childhood...... What is the meaning of these things, the poem really can't understand. Although there are very few teachers who make lessons meaningful, and although there are students who deserve respect, the presence of those guys is not indispensable to Shino.

A long time ago, Shino had told her de facto guardians, her grandparents, about her wishes. She hopes to go to work right away from high school or to get vocational training at a professional school. The old-fashioned grandfather immediately turned red with anger, and the grandmother cried and said that if Shi Nai couldn't go to the school of her choice and marry a good family, she would be sorry for her father.

Then Shino studied desperately helplessly, and finally got admitted to a good school in Tokyo, but when she entered the school, she was shocked again. Because the essence of this place is not at all different from her public middle school in the countryside. As a result, she could only count the remaining days as if she were performing a ritual when she left the school gate every day, just like she did in middle school.

Shiina's single apartment is located halfway between the school and the JR train station. It's a narrow room the size of six tatami mats with a small kitchen, but it's located near the end of the shopping street, so it's easy to get groceries. It's half past three in the afternoon, and it's not yet time for people to start gathering on an arcade shopping street.

Shino first went to the platform of the bookstore to take a look, and although she found that her favorite author had a new book, she endured it and walked out of the store in order to save money. If you book online, you can borrow it from the city library in about a month.

She then bought erasers and a checkbook at the stationery store, checked the remaining amount in her wallet, and walked to the supermarket in the middle of the shopping street while considering the dinner menu. Generally speaking, Shino's dinner only has one dish and one soup, and the balance between nutrition, calories and price is the first priority, and the taste and appearance are secondary. Let's make celery radish soup and tofu hamburger beef patties, just as she thought about it, she walked past the entrance of the game center and walked towards the supermarket next to it.

"Asahata...... In the gap between the two buildings, in an alley, such a greeting was heard. Reflexively stopping, Shino slowly turned her body ninety degrees to face each other.

Appearing in the alley are three schoolgirls wearing the same uniform as Shino - but the length of the skirt is far from the same. One person was crouching in the corner fiddling with his phone, while the other two were leaning against the wall of the supermarket, looking at Shino with a smile on their faces.

Seeing Shino standing there without saying a word, one of the people standing said to Shino with a smirk, "Come here!" But Shino didn't move, but asked in a low voice, "...... What the? ”

Suddenly, another person strode over, grabbed Shino's right wrist, and directly supported the other party and said, "Don't ask, just come here!" ”

When Shino was pulled deeper into the alley on the side of the shopping street that could not be seen, the crouching man looked up at her. This student, named Endo, is the leader of the three. Her hanging eyes with dark eyeliner and pointed jaw give the impression of a carnivorous insect.

"I'm sorry, Aada. We just sang so much at the karaoke that we can't afford to take the bus home. I'll pay it back to you tomorrow, so borrow some money. She held up a finger, and it wasn't a hundred yen or a thousand yen, but ten thousand yen.

It's too much fun to rap or something, and now it's not even twenty minutes before school ends, and the three of them have a monthly pass, and why do they have 10,000 yen for just a bus-Shino so enumerated the contradictions in the reasons they said in her heart, but if you say it, it won't end well.

This is the second time that these three people have been blackmailed for such lame reasons. Last time, she said she didn't have that much money and turned them down. The chances of the same technique succeeding twice are very low, and although she thinks so, Shino Asada replies, "I didn't have that much money with me." ”

Endo's smile disappeared for a moment, then he smiled again and said with a natural expression, "Then, you go get the money." Shino walked to the shopping street without saying a word.

'They don't follow her to the crowded bank, and what fool will come back from here?' Just as Shino Asada's thoughts were like this, Endo suddenly spoke and said, "The schoolbag is left here." Wallets too. As long as you have the card, you're OK, right? ”

Shino stopped and turned around. Endo's lips still smiled, and his narrow eyes gave off a cat-like glow when he was playing with his prey.

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As night falls, the clouds are low-hanging and dyed yellow by the pale yellow rays of the sun that is beginning to set westward. When Lin Yiyan walked out of the café, it was already dusk. Lin Yiyan rubbed his head with a headache, "It's really troublesome, I originally planned to stay quiet for a while, wait for the things to arrive, and then leave calmly, but I didn't expect to be involved in this boring incident in the end!" ”

After muttering, Lin Yiyan looked at the sky, blowing the dry and cold wind, and then took Shi Shiran's steps and muttered in a low voice, "Forget about the tram or something, go back!" By the way, sort out the clues and recall the plot in the story. ”

Lin Yiyan, who was walking on foot, began to think about the next step when suddenly! A deep voice suddenly rang out from an alley a little farther away, "What's wrong?" - Hurry up. Although it was a female voice, Lin Yiyan heard the impatience and threat contained in the tone.

"Don't!" Hearing this voice of direct refusal, Lin Yiyan understood that this was the voice of the person who was threatened. However, the woman threatened the woman, so that Lin Yiyan had to complain, why should a woman be embarrassed by a woman! However, the person who was threatened was able to have the courage to refuse, which made Lin Yiyan quite appreciative.

While following the voice, Lin Yiyan, who was looking for a position, kept nodding, next! Lin Yiyan once again heard the threatening person's voice of surprise and confusion, "Ah!? ”

"Don't! I don't want to lend you money at all! The decisive refusal sounded again, and at this moment, Lin Yiyan also figured out the alley where they were.

However, Lin Yiyan was a little worried, because such a resolute refusal should arouse stronger hostility from the other party. Thinking of this, Lin Yiyan had to speed up his pace. Then, the conversation that took place in the alley rang out again-

"Slut...... Dare to underestimate the old lady......" With a cramp in the corner of his right eye, Endo took a step forward. The remaining two quickly circled behind Shiina, creating an encirclement at the nearest distance. (To be continued.) )